Abrud

Abrud is a metropolis inside the north-western a part of Alba County, Transylvania, Romania, located at the river Abrud. It administers 3 villages: Abrud-Sat Abrudfalva, Gura Cornei Szarvaspataktorka and Soharu. Although first recorded most effective in 1271 in the shape terra Obruth, the call of the metropolis would possibly have derived from a meant now not attested Dacian phrase for gold, obrud. The Romans erected a small fortification right here in the second century AD. It turned into a part of the defence device of the gold mines nearby, in "Alburnus Maior" but it changed into deserted in the 3rd century.

The city's modern name displays a function vowel shift from o to a of the medieval Hungarian language. Abrud gained town repute in 1427, in the course of the Middle Ages. In 1727, the leaders of a rise up won manipulate of the town. Another serfs' insurrection began in the place in 1784 with Horea, Cloșca and Crișan as leaders preventing the Austrian Imperial forces, Abrud being captured by using the rebellion's members on 6 November, before the rebel turned into crushed by using the Austrian army.